SECTION 15. DEDUCT/ON. j j 9 



ergo sum. He then proceeded to deduce from this statei 





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and here once more he came into contact, if not in coSn 

 w,th empirical data.' The difference, then between Drearies 

 and modern men of science is only that the latter assign a 

 more prominent position to induction, and not that the 

 proceeds deductively and the other inductively Bacon feehn 

 that he stood at the threshold of science, and that the' method 

 of hasty generalisations succeeded by hasty deductions hd I 



n,l I*"!? i f f . 0neOUS theories > almost denounced the deduc 

 tive and almost ignored the connected mathematical met od * 

 Descartes, absorbed in mathematical studiestTnclfned to the 

 ther extreme, and restricted the influence of induction weUn h 



but I 3 ! 1 " J^ P R 0int , WUh Desca rtes will he the f?n7 Wumph 

 only after Bacon's method shaH have paved the way 



' T*"* "' ^ third, 



are base 





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even in the case of 1fferh P pT ^ T fe ^ convi nced by deduction, 



extended staten """ 



